Some Fun, Some Work
Brian and I stayed home today. He is getting over his cold still (although he did sit in a corner chair at Altu’s Saturday night for two hours and play ukulele with Barbara, Larry and me). I feel like I’m on the edge of getting something myself (this is the worst time of year for me). So Brian didn’t want to give anything to anyone and I didn’t want to push my luck. Staying home seemed the best plan.
I spent much of the day at my computer, scheduling my classes through July. I have four regular yarn shops I work with, (Threadbear, Little Red Schoolhouse, Yarn Garden, and Heritage Spinning) plus Foster Center, and a few places where I work maybe once a term. I had to sit and look at my calendar, and somehow make sense of all the choices. It’s not something my mind does easily.
Somehow, I got at least most of my classes penciled in, and I wrote to all my shops. Now I need to hear from them to see if the schedule I have proposed will work for them. I’m crossing my fingers now, folks.
I also updated my website. These are things that most visitors would not notice, but I had never listed my Wristwarmer pattern for sale, for example. I had the class written up, but not the pattern. There were three or four things like that I needed to handle, and I did what I could. I still have a couple of larger projects for my site, but I left those for a more focused day.
I finished my work as the sun was setting. As a reward, I picked up the baby socks I knit yesterday, finished all the ends, and took a stab at crocheting little leaves on the edges. It was not good enough at all, at least on the first try. I ripped it out, and did not look back. Maybe I will try again some other time, but today I’m really pleased at the look I got with just plain little roll-cuffed footies. Cute, eh? I think they are even the shape of a strawberry!
If you came here to ask me what pattern I used, the hat is the Ann Norling Fruit Cap pattern. It’s a brilliant design, easy, short, to the point, everything is right about this pattern. I didn’t write it. The socks I just made up as I went. They are very loosely based on the Fast Florida Footies, but they are different yarn, no purling of the sole, contrast cuff and added duplicate-stitch embellishment. No pattern, at least not today. I just followed my muse.
Why do I say all this? Because it seems that so much of my weblog correspondence is asking where I got this or that pattern… that is, when I didn’t write the pattern myself.